Posted by Alex Forbes on November 23, 2003 at 20:37:04 from 209.86.2.191 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: Titty finding water with a forked stick posted by Fiona on November 20, 2003 at -1:15:46:
The really weird one is my grandfather, who can dowse a map with a pendulum --not just location, but depth and flow as well. He found one well, for the town of Charlottesville, VA, where he lives, but they dug 20 feet away from the spot he had indicated and got about a tenth of the water he had predicted. He was irked; his reputation was on the line. So he went out to the site with a 4' long, thick iron rod and a sledge, dowsed again (fuming all the while!), and a little ways away from the new well drove the iron rod a few feet into the ground. Then he beat the living daylights out of the rod, always striking it on one side.
Hammering on that iron rod, he bent that water current!
At the end of the day, the flow in the new well was almost as good as he had predicted for the spot where the well was supposed to have been dug.
300 years ago, they'd have burned him at the stake. Now he charges $1 per dowse and calls it a harmless hobby.
He gave me a membership to the American Dowsers Assoc. when I did my first successful find (a diamond earing a classmate had lost on the soccer field), but I was never as good as he and haven't done it in years. And I don't go fooling about with iron rods, bending water currents!
That scene with Titty dowsing? T'was the most natural thing in the world.
Alex